Re:Same Stop: Life after 26 years as a programmer for Apple
by sawyna on Monday May 22, 2023 @01:19AM
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That's all not programming. I absolutely hate the corporate working style.
The programming part in itself is always interesting to me, because regardless of who sets the constraints (me in a hobby project or the leadership in a company), they are what make the problem challenging and exciting.
Re:Same Stop: Life after 26 years as a programmer for Apple
by nly on Monday May 22, 2023 @02:24AM
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I work for 40 hours a week but I'm pretty sure only 2 are writing code.
That's the problem. I'd happily write code for more hours
Re:Same Stop: Life after 26 years as a programmer for Apple
by turdprincess on Monday May 22, 2023 @09:54AM
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I think in this career it’s possible to optimize for 3 levers - WLB, money, and fun work. If you truly want to code a lot, a startup is the place, but you will earn less money and work more hours. Big tech offers big money and good WLB but often at the sacrifice of interesting work.
Above and beyond that, I love software, but I don't love Zoom calls, on-call shifts, unnecessarily annoying processes that I'm not allowed to automate, Slack messages, KPIs, objectives that combine vagueness about what we're doing with strict rules about what we're not allowed to touch, horrific dynamically typed JS code where half the arguments to a function are obscure mashed-together objects, over-specified tickets that leave no room for creativity, trying to jam my code into a service where it doesn't fit because leadership wants to encourage code reuse but doesn't understand DRY, or anything else that makes up the actual profession of software engineering.